Of Mice And Men Paradise Analysis

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No journey reaching paradise goes exactly as planned, however once it’s reached, it only comes in as a benefit. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, this novella displays the life of two men named George and Lennie. It is set in the year of 1936 when the Great Depression is in its peak. These two average american men are trying to survive on their own looking for farms to work on the west coast. They have been working towards their goal of owning a farm one day. Their initial plan is to find a job and save up their life's earnings to afford their paradise. Later on in the book, they achieve hope when a farmer named Candy offers them half of the value of the farm. However, after working for long, tireless hours, George realized his paradise …show more content…

He decides to ease Lennie’s death by shooting him at the thought of taking care of his own farm leaving him to his paradise. Presently as Lennie is hiding away, George finds him and calmly sits right beside with a luger hidden in his pocket. George still gives the hope to Lennie of owning a farm when he unintended all the harm he caused by imagining him to look right “acrost the river” and imagine as if “ you can almost see it.” (51). Lennie is back next to the Salinas River dreaming of his paradise. Curley is on the find for him since Lennie coincidently killed his wife. As always, Lennie's world cannot comprehend being a reality because of his innocence. George wants to keep it by making him imagine his paradise as there is no possibility left of Lennie still achieving it. As Lennie's imagines the farm, George “reached in his side pocket and brought out Carlson’s Luger” and the “hand and gun lay on the ground behind Lennie’s back...at the place where the spine and skull were joined.” (52). Lennie is now in danger of being lynched by Curley. If he is killed this way, it would signify that he has done wrong not being able to go to heaven. George did the compassionate thing for him. He believes that shooting Lennie in a happy thought is for the best as “Ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from ‘em.”(_) He believes Lennie's paradise will be waiting for him in his heaven if he is shot at the thought of his hopes and dreams. He won't have to go through brutal reality faced his way. George slowly “steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied.” Lennie's Paradise of Heaven had finally arrived to him portraying how George shot Lennie was positive. This displays how death can be a

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